On Friday 07 December 2007 04:42, Matt Kettler wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > MK> I'll be happy to change my assumptions, but can you name any good > > reason MK> why they would want to do so? > > > > The Matt theme: restrict oneself from getting mail from any but a few > > safe people, languages, or whatever. Life goes on in its familiar grey > > days. But alas, the software knows best. > > Erm.. No. The Matt theme is to only add options if they have a use. I > have yet to see a sensible argument for this.. > > > The jidanni theme: open up life to a rainbow of possibilities. New > > styles, new friends, new colors. Don't let the minor fact that we > > filter out a tiny part of the spectrum cause us to miss out on new > > contacts from who knows where. > > At that point, set ok_locales to all because you might miss out on new > contacts from that tiny spectrum too. > > Also, how will you benefit from contact with this broader spectrum if > they're emailing you in a character set you can't read? > > Now really. Can you make a serious argument why this configuration > option would be useful. I'm being serious here. I honestly don't see a > valid need for the option. > > And those who really want this effect can just list every locale except > the one they dislike, if that's really what they want.
Let's assume you running a mailrelay for a university and your users are from different countries. Lets assume further on you have no Swedish people at your university (and you get a lot of spam from Sweden). Then it would be nice to have a not_ok_locales option, because you see immediately which locale character set is considered as possible spam. If you have a list of: af ax al dz as ad ao ai aq ag ar am aw ac au at az bs bh bb by be bz bm bt bo ba ... ve vn vg vi wf eh ye yu zm zw Do you see, that Sweden is the only country which is missing? I know it maybe, but what happens when I quit my job. And somebody else should find the mistake, why some mails from Sweden are considered as spam. This can be trap. I know this is a case with a lot of "if", but I mean it is better to have good readable configuration than to prevent a second parameter which does nearly the same as the first one. Greetings Stefan
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